All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
EVELYN WAUGHHer heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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